LEADING Lymm artist, Colin Grimes, has done it again.
The retired head of art at Lymm High School, who created Lymm Heritage Centre’s lifesize chirotherium dinosaur, has painted a much larger than lifesize coronation crown with a stunning extra dimension.
The crown comes complete with a hundred or so twinkling jewels (inset LED lights) that shimmer on and off between 5pm and 10pm every evening in the window of Lymm Heritage Centre.
The crown created by Colin Grimes
It’s the focal point of the latest window display put together by Colin and his wife Janet for the centre to celebrate the coronation this weekend.
“We are blessed to have such talented volunteers on our team,” heritage centre chair Alan Williams told us. “Colin never ceases to amaze us with what he produces”.
Celebrations in 1911
Inside the Centre there is a five minute movie on the big screen that recaptures the lavish local celebrations for the coronation of George V in 1911 including a giant illuminated framework round Lymm Cross.
Lymm celebrated the coronation of George V with lavish decorations across the whole village. The photographs have been colourised by Alan Taylor form the Lymm Heritage Centre and Lymm Archive team.
Younger visitors can make and take their own jewelled crown as a memento of the occasion. The film and activities will run through May.
Isla Storey, Isobel Buckley and Mila Jones hard at work making their crown jewels
It’s all free, donations welcome.
Lymm Heritage Centre is open 12pm to 4pm Thursday to Sunday (closed Coronation day May 6)
Celebrations in 1911
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